A coming or happening; as, the occurrence of a railway collision.

One who meets; hence, an adversary.

Same as Occursion.

A meeting; a clash; a collision.

Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.

Land bordering an ocean.

capable of crossing an ocean; used on the high seas; -- used mostly of ships; as, oceangoing vessels.

A large group of islands in the south Pacific sometimes including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean.

Same as Oceania.

A daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.

A scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas.

A description of the ocean.

That branch of science which relates to the ocean.

The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.

Of or pertaining to ocelli.

Same as Ocellated.

Resembling an eye.

A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates. An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.

Resembling the ocelot.

An American feline carnivore (Felis pardalis). It ranges from the Southwestern United States to Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

A mutation in which the base sequence of one of the codons in the messenger RNA has been converted to UAA. Such a mutation may be conditionally suppressed, as can an amber mutation, by the presence of a special transfer RNA.

Ocherous.

See Occamy.

A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof.

A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy; mob rule.

Of or pertaining to ochlocracy; having the form or character of an ochlocracy; mobocratic.

A natural family of mammals including pikas and extinct forms.

Ocherous.

See Ocher.

A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors. A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.

A greave or legging.

Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted.

See Ocherous.

Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.

See Ochery.

Yellowish white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow.

See Ochery.

See Occamy.

See Okra.

See Ochrea.

Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.

An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

An atom or radical which has a valence of eight, or is octavalent.

See Octahedral.

A fast of eight days before a great festival.

A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.

Having eight sides and eight angles.

Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.

Having eight faces or sides; of, pertaining to, or formed in, octahedrons; as, octahedral cleavage; an octahedral crystal.

Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals.

A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.

A molecule composed of eight monomer units bound to each other, usually in a linear array; as, an octamer formed from eight nucleotides is called an octanucleotide.

Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.

A verse containing eight feet; as, --/ / Deep/ in|to/ the | dark/ness | peer/ing, | long/ I | stood/ there | wond'/ring, | fear/ing.

One of the Octandria.

A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.

Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.

Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarbons (C8H18) of the methane (paraffin) series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of gasoline or ligroin.

Having eight angles; eight-angled.

A molecule composed of eight nucleotide units bound to each other by phosphodiester bonds in a linear array; as, a partial digest of DNA or RNA may include octanucleotides. See octamer.

A molecule composed of eight amino acid units bound to each other by peptide bonds, usually in a linear array. See octamer.

A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.

See Octoroon.

See Octostyle.

A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament.

Having a valence of eight; capable of being combined with, exchanged for, or compared with, eight atoms of hydrogen; -- said of certain atoms or radicals.

Consisting of eight; eight.

Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

Same as Octylene.

Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years.

A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.

Of the eighth degree or order. A quantic of the eighth degree.

Same as Octant, 2.

According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate.

The tenth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

Octocerata.

A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda.

See Octachord.

A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18/, and called eighteenmo.

Having eight teeth.

Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many other South American species.

See Octahedral.

Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.

A marrying eight times.

A person eighty years, or more, of age.

Of eighty years of age.

A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.

See Octagonal.

A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils.

Having eight pistils; octagynous.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, octane; -- used specifically, to designate any one of a group of acids, the most important of which is called caprylic acid.

Having eight cells for seeds.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.

Of or pertaining to the number eight.

Having eight eyes.

An animal having eight feet, as a spider.

Having eight petals or flower leaves.

One of the Octocerata.

Same as Octocerata. Same as Arachnida.

Same as Octocerata.

A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish.

Having eight rays.

The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

Containing eight seeds.

In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.

Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle. See Hexastyle. An octostyle portico or temple.

Consisting of or containing eight syllables.

A word of eight syllables.

A typographic symbol (#) having two vertical lines intersected by two horizontal lines. It is also called the crosshatch, hash, numeral sign and number sign; in the U. S. it is commonly called the pound sign, especially to designate the symbol as used on digital telephone dials, but this can be confusing to Europeans who think of the pound sign as the symbol for the British pound. It is commonly used as a symbol for the word number; as in #36 (meaning: number thirty-six).

A hypothetical radical (C7H15.CO.), regarded as the essential residue of octoic acid.

A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.

See Octet.

Eightfold.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of octane, and as entering into its derivatives; as, octyl alcohol.

Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, octyl; as, octylic ether.

The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.

By the eye, or by actual sight.